{"id":82900,"date":"2025-10-18T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/82900\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:44:10","slug":"the-rainmaker-season-1-episode-10-review-score-one-for-the-little-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/82900\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rainmaker Season 1 Episode 10 Review: Score One for the Little Guy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Critic’s Rating: 4.25 \/ 5.0<\/p>\n

4.25<\/p>\n

Well, he did it. Rudy Baylor actually won the thing. It wasn\u2019t pretty, it wasn\u2019t easy, and it sure as hell wasn\u2019t quiet \u2014 but he did it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From the beginning, we knew the path wasn\u2019t going to be straight. Rudy\u2019s whole story has been about getting dragged through the mud and still managing to crawl out with his conscience intact.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And with The Rainmaker<\/a> Season 1 Episode 10, that stubborn heart of his paid off.<\/p>\n

\"\" (Christopher Barr\/USA Network)<\/p>\n

This episode opened with the kind of beautiful madness that only The Rainmaker can pull off. Rudy still had Melvin Pritcher tied up in a basement like a leftover Thanksgiving turkey, with Deck feeding the guy soda through a straw. Because of course he was.<\/p>\n

Bruiser was the only one pointing out the obvious \u2014 this is kidnapping, geniuses. You could tell she was seconds away from calling the cops herself just to knock some sense into them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Rudy had that glint in his eye. He wasn\u2019t done yet. He was going to get justice for Dot, even if it killed him.<\/p>\n

And then, against all odds, he did it. Melvin wound up on the witness stand, and for once, Rudy\u2019s gamble paid off. You could feel the courtroom tilt when Melvin confessed to Donnie Ray\u2019s murder \u2014 flat-out, no hesitation \u2014 and then, in true Rainmaker fashion, the whole thing exploded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leo pushed too far and tried to turn the man\u2019s trauma into a spectacle, and Melvin launched himself across the witness stand like a human missile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\" (Christopher Barr\/USA Network)<\/p>\n

I shouldn\u2019t have cheered, but I did. Admit it, you did too. Melvin didn\u2019t make Rudy\u2019s day any easier with that WWE move, but come on, watching Leo get tackled was so cathartic.<\/p>\n

Leo\u2019s downfall has been a long time coming, and this finale gives us at least a little satisfaction in that regard.\u00a0I don\u2019t expect it to last if we\u2019re lucky enough to get a second season, but it felt good.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s too smug to know when to quit, so Rudy finally did what no one else could or would and put him on the stand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was awkward and maybe a little reckless, but it\u2019s classic Rudy. And it worked to an extent. The judge saw right through Leo\u2019s performance, and Sarah was left holding the proverbial briefcase. The result was that the seemingly untouchable Tinley Britt empire started to crumble from the inside.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Sarah, her smug little grin. OMG. Seriously. I have never wanted to smack something off someone\u2019s face so desperately. My notes must have the word smug written 100 times, with a new adjective before it for every one of them. Ahem.<\/p>\n

\"\" (Christopher Barr\/USA Network)<\/p>\n

Oh, she tried to keep it together. She was still tossing those eye rolls and acting like she\u2019s the smartest person in the room. She uses her privilege to annoy the hell out of us all.<\/p>\n

When she threw Brad under the bus, even Leo looked shocked. She\u2019s learned all the wrong lessons, and you can practically see her thinking she\u2019s the next Leo. Honey, if that\u2019s the goal, enjoy the trip down.<\/p>\n

She definitely found a new low in the finale. Color me shocked. I didn\u2019t think it was possible, but using the death of Rudy\u2019s brother in her closing argument wasn\u2019t clever; it was disgusting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She took his grief, something private and sacred, and turned it into ammunition for a legal battle. How gross is that?<\/p>\n

You could see the moment he realized it, too \u2014 that sharp inhale, that flash of disbelief on his face. Did she do it to prove the point that she didn\u2019t need to be saved after he tried one last time to reach her?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\" (Courtesy of USA Network)<\/p>\n

When he found her in the hallway earlier (as Leo predicted), he offered her an out and practically begged her to come back to the light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He knows she was a good person once \u2014 hell, he remembers the spark that drew him to her as we saw in his ending montage \u2014 but she\u2019s gone now. That\u2019s the part that hurts the most. He didn\u2019t just lose a colleague; he lost someone he believed in, maybe even thought he loved.<\/p>\n

But Rudy\u2019s closing argument was everything. It was quiet, heartfelt, and so damn human.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking about mothers and sons while his own mom sat in the courtroom was the full circle moment we knew would tear down the house.<\/p>\n

He fought the whole way through The Rainmaker Season 1<\/a> for someone else\u2019s child, only to realize he\u2019s still a son who needed saving, too.<\/p>\n

\"\" (Courtesy of USA Network)<\/p>\n

So yeah, Rudy won.\u00a0Partway through, I thought maybe they\u2019d go the way of Rocky and get him so close to winning, leaving an opening to continue the case into another season. A second chance to be the victor. Thank God, I was wrong.<\/p>\n

The verdict came back in his favor \u2014 conspiracy, cover-up, eighty million dollars in punitive damages \u2014 and justice, for once, actually felt possible. Sarah was left hollow, Leo is facing the FBI and losing clients left and right, and Bruiser\u2019s finally breathing again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a neat ending, but it\u2019s a right one. And who likes neat anyway?<\/p>\n

And Bruiser. My girl held it all together while the men practically lost their minds. She helped Rudy win, but more importantly, she found her own peace and her place. She\u2019s back on the winning side, working with people who fight the good fight, not just any fight to make a dime.<\/p>\n

They are an incredible team. Rudy can be like the balloon flying high into the sky, and Bruiser grabs the string before he flies too far from reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\" (Courtesy of USA Network)<\/p>\n

Deck is snuggled right between them, the middle ground, which, interestingly enough, is something Leo actually discussed with a modicum of truth while on the stand.<\/p>\n

Deck\u2019s moment with Rudy at the end was perfect. That coin \u2014 Rudy\u2019s brother\u2019s coin \u2014 has been a quiet symbol all season, a little piece of hope that Rudy has carried through every fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Passing it to Deck wasn\u2019t just a sentiment. He was making it a legacy. It was Rudy saying, \u201cYou\u2019ve earned this.\u201d And for a show that\u2019s been all about moral gray areas, that little flicker of light felt perfect.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t have to be Deck\u2019s brother\u2019s coin to be meaningful to him because Rudy is his new brother, and together, they\u2019ll do what Rudy and his mother\u2019s other son were always meant to do. Just awww.<\/p>\n

Dot got her justice, too. She didn\u2019t need the money or the headlines \u2014 she just wanted the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\" (Courtesy of USA Network)<\/p>\n

Hearing it out loud, that her son was murdered and had not fallen again to addiction, gave her the closure she\u2019s been praying for since The Rainmaker Season 1 Episode 1<\/a>. And then she said she\u2019s donating to the places that helped Donnie Ray and naming her new dog Bruiser, which sealed her fate as a member of their chosen family<\/p>\n

Part of me thought that she\u2019d donate money to Rudy\u2019s practice to help others. But she didn\u2019t need to since Rudy got a sizable chunk of her money for the win. He got enough to make major changes in his life, including buying Prince\u2019s bar.<\/p>\n

Brad wasn\u2019t so lucky. The poor bastard finally paid the price for all those shady errands and backroom deals.\u00a0So why did I actually feel sorry for the guy?<\/p>\n

Watching him slumped in orange, tossing a little wave (OMG. Can you believe that?) across the prison yard at Melvin, was almost sad. Almost.\u00a0I chuckled with how pathetically human it seemed.<\/p>\n

And that little flash of humanity there (I know you\u2019ll fight me) surprised me. It\u2019s like he knows that he\u2019s exactly where he belongs but still can\u2019t help trying to connect.\u00a0Connecting with the son of mother you helped murder is beyond the pale, which only makes it sadder.<\/p>\n

\"\" (Christopher Barr\/USA Network)<\/p>\n

For a show full of monsters in suits, it\u2019s weirdly poetic that the guy who caused so much harm ended up waving at the man who burned it all down. And let\u2019s be real. Melvin has what, 18 murders under his belt? A little prison yard justice is coming for Brad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I wonder if Leo would feel anything if he receives word Brad\u2019s been murdered by Melvin, bringing the whole thing full circle. If not, then God help Sarah. She\u2019ll never find her soul again.<\/p>\n

If this is where The Rainmaker ends, we can walk away satisfied. But it better not be.\u00a0I mean, what other show could have me rooting for a serial killer over a legal firm? <\/p>\n

They\u2019d be stupid as hell to stop here. The show finally hit its stride. It\u2019s smart, emotional, funny when it needs to be, and absolutely devastating when it counts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rudy\u2019s story still has more to say, and I, for one, want front-row seats when he says it.<\/p>\n

I know you all loved it. So, share the love with me in the comments below. I\u2019ll still be around, reviewing The Last Frontier<\/a> and Tulsa King<\/a> among other things. They\u2019re on a different scale of justice, but we do what we can!<\/p>\n

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